this weekend the new york area media was all abuzz. >> groundbreaking moment. >> historic shattered the glass ceiling. >> groundbreaking day. >> going where no woman has gone before. >> should reverberate throughout the united states. >> whoa. what was it all about? what was the thing that was so groundbreaking and historic? it had everybody all atwitter. >> today loren silberman will be the first female ever to try out for the nfl. >> the first woman to do that, to try out for the nfl. she was one of 37 kickers. her experience is in soccer, not football. but the media obsessed with her. would she be able to live up to the impossible expectations? no. her first kickoff attempt went 19 yards, second 13, well short of the perfect 60 she was hoping for. is it really so surprising? the only requirement to attend one of these combines is a $275

entrance fee and prove you're eligible for the draft. she should be proud of herself for trying. the fact that the media is now tearing her down is unfair since they're the one who built her up and created the whole stink in the first place. anderson cooper is now. erin, thanks very much. more on the breaking news involving a leading u.s. senator and allegations he had sex with teen prostitutes. also tonight, what kind of couple were they? jodi airias offering graphic and new testimony today about travis alexander, the man she's now painting as a sexual aggressor, physical abuser and a man she says she still loved right up until the day she killed him. dennis rodman in who he calls a friend which happens to be the north korea's brutal leader. laura ling was in prison in north korea and her sister lisa

led the fight to free her. a damaging allegation about a powerful senator was simply made up. made up by whom, we don't exactly know for sure. but we know part of the plot was fabricated by a member of the world's oldest profession, a prostitute for the world's best-known motive -- money. the senator in question is robert menendez of new jersey seen here answering questions from dana bash about allegations of financial improprieties involving flights to the dominican republic. however, the truly explosive charges had to do with what he allegedly did while there. the conservative website the daily caller first reported them. the site running video from nameless women who sd they had sex with the senator for money. we sent drew griffin to the dominican republic to investigate. >> reporter: a rundown brothel in santa domingo is hardly a place for serious journalism, yet here we are, knocking on its door. hold on. and finding yet another

mysterious clue leading to another closed door. hello? hello? >> drew found nothing to corroborate the allegations, neither did the fbi. tonight cnn has obtained evidence which casts further doubt on those allegations. affidavits from one of the women who appeared on that original video, saying it was all a putup job. saying she was paid to make the tape, and has never met senator menendez in her life. but joe johns is working with his sources. and the washington post also wrote the story. carol, a lawyer gave a script to another lawyer, who found a prostitute to read it? i mean, can you walk us through what you know? it seems confusing. >> it sounds really fantastical, especially when we were given some of these documents. when my colleague translated them, what we saw was that a woman who describes herself as an escort said she was approached by a lawyer with her co-worker, they were asked if

they would go to a hotel room and if they would read some language aloud. which they did. that lawyer, who they identified, has now gone to the court with them, in the dominican republic, and said he was also hood winked. a separate lawyer, a second lawyer told him he needed a videotape of some women saying they had been unfaithful with a particular client, and this client had been unfaithful against his wife, that he was a divorce lawyer. and when the tape surfaced in the daily caller, of course, it became big news in the dominican republic, and this escort and this lawyer both said, wait a minute, that's us. we didn't realize that we were slandering a u.s. senator, and one of his most important donors, when we were just reading this stuff aloud. >> it's fascinating. in early february, dana bash caught up with senator menendez and asked him about these allegations. i just want to play that for our viewers. here's what he said. >> it's amazing to me that

anonymous, nameless, faceless individuals on a website can drive that type of story into the mainstream. but that's what they've done successful. now nobody can find them. no one ever met them. no one ever talked to them. so the bottom line is, all of those smears are absolutely false. and that's the bottom line. >> joe, what is the senator's office saying about this tonight? >> they say they're not jumping for joy, anderson. the senator was at the capitol today. the only thing menendez says he knows about this story is what he's read in the news media. but he also says he's been saying all along that there was nothing to this. so at least this part of the story, apparently they're feeling pretty vindicated. >> carol, is there a sense of why this woman, this escort is changing her story, coming out with what she says is the truth now? there are those people who will say, maybe she was telling the truth the first time around and now under pressure she's just reversing it.

>> i don't think this is a case of a person changing her testimony. based solely on the affidavit. if you look at what she wrote, she basically said she had no idea she was being taped, that that was surreptitious. and that the lawyer who was the intermediary thought he was doing something kind of untoward, but did not realize this was about a u.s. senator. remember, in the tape, the women are asked whether they recognize a particular person. they're not asked to identify a u.s. senator. they're asked, do you recognize this guy? has he ever hired you? they tell this kind of crazy story about how they said they wanted $500, but they only got $100. now they're going to be in court tomorrow morning in the dominican republic, seeking protective immunity saying they were the unwitting dupes in this smear campaign. and anderson, you asked the perfect question, what's really behind this? that, we don't know yet. if we take these -- this woman and this lawyer's word for it, there is something bigger behind this in terms of somebody who hired that lawyer to get this

rolling. >> yeah. certainly there's a lot more to be learned. in terms, joe, of the larger investigation, the senator's troubles are far from over. there are other allegations here, not just the prostitution allegations. >> that's true, anderson. there's a wide ranging investigation going on into the senator's dealings with his friend dr. solomon melgwynn, florida eye doctor, and alleged health care fraud. the senator rode on the doctor's private plane three times, didn't pay for two of the trips until it all spilled out into the open. so there's also a potential question for the ethics committee there. a lot for the investigators to chew on, anderson. >> carol, i appreciate you being on tonight and the work you and your colleagues have done. joe, you as well. the search for the women in question which came up empty, as did attempts to meet face to face with a shadowy tipster who was seemingly at the center of this story. listen. >> drew, this whole story is from an anonymously e-mailer.

you got one of these e-mails, right? >> we got a cryptic e-mail from a p. williams. but what we were able to do is take that ip address and tracked it down to santa domingo. we said, hey, we would like to find you. we'd like to see what evidence you have that could back up any of these claims. and that's what brought us to santa domingo in the dominican republic. >> and the story you ended up doing from there, that's what you did, searching for this mystery man. >> who really did turn out to be a mystery man. we didn't want to put any of these allegations, of course, on the air until we found this guy. and so we wound up going to all these cryptic hinted spots, the prostitution house, the attorney's house, the various spots where we were supposedly going to find this information. or perhaps even find p. williams. but the mystery man turned out in the end to be just that, a mystery man who's remained anonymous and whose charges and allegations don't seem to add up

at all. >> when you look over the affidavits, do you have any clue who the mastermind is behind this effort to smear the senator with the prostitution claims? >> i can tell you from my sources in the dominican republic now that they still are not very close to finding out who is the, quote unquote, mastermind, who is peter williams. what this prostitute allegedly says in the affidavit is she was put up to this, given a script and told to read this script by a very low-level attorney that, quite frankly, anderson, we tried to chase for three days in the dominican republic. the guy never even showed up to his office while we were in town. and i know that cnn has tried to contact him again by phone tonight. he still is not answering. so the authorities in the dominican republic i can tell you believe these were the pawns who were probably working for p. williams, or whoever is behind p. williams. but it's not p. williams. >> well, the investigation continues. drew, thanks. let us know what you think

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he's my friend. what he does, that -- >> someone who hypothetically is a murderer who is your friend is still a murderer. >> well, you know, ser usely, guess what, guess what, what i did, what i did was history. was history against what? it's like we do here in america, right? it's amazing we have presidents here doing the same thing. it's amazing bill clinton can have sex with his secretary and still get away with it and be powerful. >> how is that compared to prison camps? >> we only need to do one thing. guess what, we deal with one thing. friend to friend, right? friend to friend. he's a friend to me. that's about it. >> he doesn't make any sense. he said he's going back, by the way. he said kim jong-un wants president obama to call him. >> the united states has direct channels of communications with

the dprk. instead of spending money on celebrity sporting events, to entertain the elites of that country, the north korean regime should focus on the well-being of its own people who have been starved, imprisoned and denied their human rights. >> we should mention that the whole rodman event is expected to air in a documentary on our corporate cousins hbo. with me now, laura and lisa ling. you'll remember they were detained in north korea for nearly five months back in 2009. they were jailed, convicted in a show trial and sentenced to 12 years hard labor before former president bill clinton and others secured their freedom. laura and her sister, lisa, write about the ordeal and somewhere inside, one sister's captivity in north korea and the other's fight to bring her home. appreciate you both being with us. laura, as someone who has seen the brutality of the north korean government firsthand, when you hear dennis rodman call the leader of north korea a great friend, honest, awesome, what do you think? >> listen, i think who really takes dennis rodman seriously.

and it's all pretty ab sured. but the fact that he was a guest of kim jong-un who was clearly wining and dining him, showing him the best that pyongyang had to offer, you know, i wasn't exactly shocked by it, let's say. it's dennis rodman, after all. >> were you -- i mean, lisa, i just finished this "60 minutes" story about a young man born into a north korean concentration camp, where torture, starvation, rape was common place. this is the only country in the world that has a punishment of three generations of people. they imprison their children, their parents. do you think dennis rodman has any idea of what north korea is like? >> i don't think he had any clue. i don't think he would have talked about kim jong-un or the north korean regime so effuseively had he known. as laura said, i don't know that anyone has ever really taken

dennis rodman seriously. but what he did do, that no other american has been able to do, is get -- have direct interaction with the man who leads the most reclusive and isolated country in the world. and that was some invaluable information. i mean, when laura and her colleague were detained in north korea, president clinton went over to secure their release, and much of the world thought that kim jong-il, kim jong-un's father was on his deathbed. and to secure that kind of information, in some ways is pretty invaluable. >> laura, is there a danger, though, in kind of giving people around the world misperceptions of what life in north korea is like? i mean, you know, dennis -- most north koreans aren't going to be able to attend a basketball game like the folks in that stadium who i imagine were high-party officials or had one reason or another that they were able to be there. a lot of north koreans i've

talked to who have escaped concentration camps are upset that the media focuses a lot on, you know, this new younger leader, with his wife and pictures of them visiting amusement parks. and that it gives a misperception of what life is like in north korea for most people. >> sure. and i agree with that. kim jong-un is trying to portray himself as this more jovial leader, more in the vein of his grandfather kim illsung. we're sort of guilty of it when we shine a lot on this whole dennis rodman visit, because that's the information that is disseminated, whereas we really should be focusing on the egregious human rights abuses that are taking place in that country. but i do think that, you know, for people who don't know anything about north korea, you know, here's a chance for us to talk about it, and to talk about the misinformation, and how ill informed dennis rodman may have

been. and probably was. the true nature of what's going on inside that country. >> it's interesting, lisa, to your point about relationships, also being important, obviously the relationships that some americans managed to build up in the north korean government were a big factor in your sister's release and were helpful. it even seems like rodman missed an opportunity, and maybe he did make an effort to mention the fate -- there's an american being held in north korea right now, i think his name is kenneth bay. >> yeah. >> and i don't know that anyone on the rodman camp or who was with them broached that topic when they were sitting around the basketball court with kim jong-un. >> one can only hope that the experience that kim jong-un had with these americans that he might consider merciful and allow the american who has been there since november to be released. i think any opportunity to try and engage this regime, it could be perceived as positive. or it could be productive. let's just say.

and having confirmation that he has this fascination is, i think, unique. >> laura, i appreciate you taking the time to talk to us. lisa, i know you're due any day now. so i wish you well, and thank you so much for taking the time to talk to us. >> thanks, anderson. >> thank you, anderson. coming up, a toddler who may have made medical history. researchers say she was born with hiv, and is now cured. the question is, does her case raise hopes for other babies with hiv? for adults with hiv? for anyone around the world with hiv. today we finally saw what the details of that case were. we'll talk to anthony from the nih about it. also, what the sinkhole actually looks like, the one that swallowed a 37-year-old man. david mattingly tonight takes us inside another sinkhole for an upclose look of what they're like. good morning, turtle. ♪ my friends are all around me

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the world got its first look today at the sinkhole that opened up beneath a tampa bay area home last week. we spoke with his brother shortly after the nightmare began. >> i ran toward my brother's bedroom. i heard my brother scream. so i ran to the bedroom. i went to open the door and run in. i turned the light on and seen there was no floor there. everything was gone. my brother's bed, my brother's dresser, my brother's tv. and my brother was gone. and this big hole. all i could see was -- i could

barely see his bed. and i jumped in the hole and tried to dig him out. i got a shovel, and started to try to dig him out. i thought i heard him screaming for my help. i thought i heard him asking me for help. so i tried and tried and tried to get him out. and i was screaming, and screaming for him. and i couldn't get him out. i tried so hard. i tried everything i could. >> back then, he wanted emergency crews to do more to rescue his brother. now he wants them to do more recovering his remains. >> that means the ground was still stable right there. why couldn't they -- you've got the long arm, have somebody hang from that arm to drag my brother out or something. i don't want nothing else to happen to nobody else.

>> meantime, about three miles away, it is happening again. the ground opening up between two homes. no relation, except for relative proximity to the deadly sinkhole. joining us with the unique perspective is david mattingly inside yet another sinkhole in florida. you're actually inside one, david? >> that's right, anderson. look how big this place is. you could put a basketball court inside this sinkhole, it's so big. we wanted to come down here to find out what sort of forces were in play and get an idea about how these amazing geologic structures are created. we came down here looking for answers, and we found them here, 50 feet beneath the surface. it's just a few short steps down, to an incredible underground site. >> this was the original cavity that eventually collapsed in. >> reporter: a massive sinkhole, carved out of solid limestone by drops of water. so this is what a sinkhole looks like from the inside. >> from the inside, yes. before you fill it up with sand

and dirt. >> reporter: if someone were living right on top of this, they'd be at risk. >> yes. >> reporter: geologist jerry black said homeowners might be surprised to find out just how common these are. what are the chances of someone having a house in central florida and living on top of something like this? >> very good. not probably as close to the surface as this. but you can -- you definitely have cavities of this size all over the state of florida. >> reporter: fossils found in this sink hole show it's been around since the ice age. but no different, black says, than the sink holes we see opening up today. these are just a few of his pictures. the one thing they all have in common is water. >> rainwater is going to turn into ground water, that's what's naturally sitting. that's the device that dissolves the limestone. and will help create these cavities. >> reporter: what is unusual about this sinkhole, it's easy to get inside. called the devil's den, it's open to tourists for viewing and

diving. dive instructor prince johnson takes me in for a look. i find this seemingly placid pool of water is anything but. >> the water has gone down considerably, because of the aquifer. but has risen when we've had hurricanes and tropical storms, risen another 45 feet. >> 45 feet? >> 45 feet. >> so the water is constantly going up and down, depending on the drought or hurricane. >> yes. >> reporter: it's easy to see how it's wreaked havoc. boulders as big as cars sitting on the bottom. the same forces are still at work, compounded by the demand for fresh water. >> it is progressively dropping yearly. and that's basically -- the aquifer is getting lower and lower. >> reporter: perhaps most striking to me, how appearances of this sinkhole are so misleading. a single beam of sunlight reveals the cavern is even

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a lot of excitement, and also skepticism about a mississippi toddler who appears to have made medical history. researchers say she appears to be the first baby to be cured of hiv, the virus that causes aids. she was treated with high doses

of retro viral drugs shortly after she was born. she was just 30 hours old when she started getting these drugs. the virus was undetectable for drugs after weeks. she's now 2 1/2 years old and still has no detectable traces of hiv and she's off the drugs. it's important to point out, it's just one case, and experts caution further research is needed. you've done pioneering research on aids. is this baby really 100% cured of hiv? is it a chance it could come back? >> the people who have been studying the baby have done everything that we can possibly do to determine if there's virus that's viable or replicating in the infant. in the baby. they can't find it. they can see some remnants of virus that doesn't look like it's live virus. the trouble is, that you can't access every single nook and

corner in the person's body. so it is conceivable, unlikely, but quite conceivable that there may still be some virus that's there that might be able to resurge or come back and rebound in a year or two. that's the reason you've got to be cautious, if you say this is an absolute definitive cure. from all of the techniques that we know, we can call it a cure. >> can you explain to me what's different about how this baby was treated immediately after being born, you know, my understanding is she was given medication within 30 hours or something, versus how babies who are born to hiv positive mothers are normally treated? >> generally, most people get some degree of prenatal care. so if you discover that a mother is infected during pregnancy, you treat that mother with a triple combination of drugs. you still give the baby about six weeks of what we call prophylaxis. and in the meanwhile, during that time you try to determine if the baby is infected. if after six weeks you find the baby's not infected, you stop that prophylaxis. if the baby is infected, then

you give the aggressive three-drug therapy. the difference in this case, because of the high risk to this infant, because the mother had no prenatal care at all and no treatment, the judgment call made by the pediatricians was to treat the baby immediately as if the baby were infected. and they did make the right call, retrospectively, because the baby turned out to be infected. then what happened is, because they treated the baby so early, within 30 hours, they found out that when the mother, on her own, discontinued the therapy, after 18 months, the baby was quite well, and tlfsz no indication that the baby was infected. >> the idea is with the baby, because you started this treatment so aggressively, so quickly, no reservoir of hiv was allowed to form? >> exactly. that's the point. or if it was formed, it was so small, that after a period of time, it attenuated itself, whereas an adult who was infected for months to a year, then goes on therapy, the

reservoir has already been established. >> this really could have application, again, if it is true, in the developing world? >> the real issue, and the real problem is in the developing world, where you don't have that easy access to anti-natal, prenatal care. the way this woman in mississippi didn't have -- she may have had access but she didn't utilize it. >> how much is the focus of a cure among researchers, among scientists? >> well, it's growing to be a much hotter topic than it's been, because of the advances that we have with such good drugs, of being able to suppress the virus so well. so the next question is, can we in fact cure people where they don't have to be on life-long therapy. and over the past few years there's been an extensive acceleration of research in that direction. >> in your gut, you've been working in this field for so long, do you believe some sort of functional cure will be found in the near term? less than five years? >> i think if this proves that it is applicable and not just this individual case, i think within a few years, you can have

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has never been stronger. welcome back. jodi arias was back on the stand in arizona today where she's on trial for the murder of her ex-boyfriend travis anderson. the interesting part of this trial is the jurors also have the chance to ask her questions through the judge.

for now, though, as has been the case with much of her testimony, today was focus the on her sex life. we have to warn you, some of the testimony is graphic. >> after a damaging week on cross-examination, the first order of business for jodi arias' defense team was knocking down any hint of premeditation. >> did you go to mr. alexander's home on june 4th with the intent on killing him? >> no. i didn't. >> another attempt to convince the jury she murdered travis alexander in self-defense. even though she's changed her story three times. testimony quickly turned to arias' broken finger on her left hand. the prosecution has tried to prove she hurt her finger while stabbing her ex-boyfriend dozens of times. and dragging his bloody body around the house. to dispute that, arias ''s defense lawyer offered a show-and-tell. >> that occurred when you testified to having received

when mr. alexander was kicking you in the ribs, and he ended up kicking your hand, correct? >> that's correct. >> arias said alexander broke her finger six months before the murder. the day after she caught him allegedly masturbating to a photo of a little boy. she claims he became increasingly violent after that. even though the couple had broken up, arias says she and alexander continued to have sex. but she wasn't the only one alexander was seeing. now, the state has painted her as jealous, and obsessive. but here in court, arias portrayed herself as unphased by this other woman. she even asked alexander about her. >> i didn't want to be confrontational. i wanted to just throw it out there, let him know it's okay if you're dating someone. you can let me know. i'm going to be cool about that. >> again, the couple's sex life was on full display. the defense worked to convince the jury it was alexander, not airias, who was the more experienced sexually. listen to this recording of the couple's phone sex played in court.

>> we've had two or three-hour sessions many times. >> there was this question about encounter of oral sex in the car. >> did he do anything to make you believe this wasn't his first encounter of this nature? >> yes. he flipped the visor down and angled the mirror so he could have an additional visual vantage point. >> but what about the text message arias sent alexander saying she wanted to dress up like a horny little school girl? >> was that the idea of the school girl in the outfit, was that something that you were interested in, or was it something you were doing to please him? >> it would be more for his pleasure. because just being with him was enough for me. but he enjoyed that kind of stuff. >> all along, the prosecutor has

painted arias as the one who unleashed alexander's sexual appetite. the defense tried to counter that. >> so based on what you've told us in your testimony, before you met travis in your sexual history, you would have had anal sex no more than four times, is that accurate? >> that's accurate. >> and what to make of arias' strange behavior at alexander's memorial service? she left him a note shown in court telling him she loved him. remember, this was less than two weeks after she slit his throat, nearly cutting his head off. >> well, i still have love for him, yes. and i was thinking now more in terms of eternity. >> arias told the court she still had deep love for alexander on june 4th, 2008, the day she killed him. randi kaye, cnn, phoenix, arizona. >> joining me now is senior legal analyst, jeffrey toobin,

and mark geragos. mark, are you surprised that arias was on the stand again all day and is going to be on tomorrow? i think on friday you were saying the defense should basically get her on there and get her off as quickly as possible. >> you would think so. but there may be some -- there may be a method to madness. the more she's on there, the more there's a chance she resonates. all you need is one juror. >> right. >> this is going to come down, i think, its's a gender kind of a split. the more she's up there, the more she'll turn off most males. i think this is not going to resonate with most males. but i think there are women who can understand, or at least appreciate what she's talking about. >> see, i actually would draw the opposite conclusion. i do think it's possible some jurors might find sympathy. but women jurors are often very tough on women. particularly in rape cases, in consent issues. so i don't think it's

necessarily men that -- >> i agree. >> i think it's women who may be harder. >> i think all of a sudden you show women are harder on women. but there is a developing sense, even in the beginning when she was on direct, that women were starting to say, i kind of understand -- you start to see that out there. >> i mean, her story is she feared for her life and that's basically why she killed this guy. we haven't heard much about that. >> remember years ago with the murder out in california, with the twinkie defense, and people said this is so outrageous. it's the vehicle to get in the testimony, so that the person gets some kind of empathy, sympathy or resonates with a jury. >> it must be. because it certainly doesn't sound like self-defense. >> right. >> that all this evidence about their sex life, how that relates to the issue of self-defense is pretty much lost on me. i think it's just generally designed to paint a picture that might generate some sympathy. i think they ought to get her

off. >> when you have this kind of dynamic, where it escalates, domestic violence, there is always this -- i find after you talk to the jurors, especially, or people who are following the trial, they get in -- they don't really care about the facts, it's whether the other person reminds them of some abusive ex-boyfriend they had. those kinds of things. you're talking about 12 people in there. all kinds of things can come into play in their decision. >> so keep her up there, that's the thinking, just keep her up there, and hopefully it will resonate over time with somebody on the stand. >> you do get to know someone. that's the thing about testimony this long. you get to know a personality. and then to ask jurors to know a person, to then sentence that person to die, is sometimes -- >> we saw her breaking down when cornered on thursday in her testimony. which was really the first time we kind of saw that, where her lies caught up with her. she's pretty composed on the

stand, pushing back even on the prosecutor. >> i find a weird affect, the sort of half smiles, that are -- and her story to me is so preposterous that it's hard to evaluate her as a witness independent of the fact that, you know, she slaughtered this guy in cold blood and shot him and stabbed him 27 times and nearly cut his head off. the demure librarian on the witness stand is very hard to -- >> journal entries about her fear of this guy and stuff. there's plenty of journal entries about details of their sex life and stuff. >> you can bring it up. it gets you to put the person on the stand. you use it as a vehicle. it is not what's driving this case. what's driving this case is they're hoping that those jurors are going to just say, look, pox on her house, let her rot away for the rest of her life in prison. or it will not be the first time i've seen a jury hang between a first and a lesser. >> i'm looking forward to seeing what the jurors have for

questions. this is very unusual. one of only three states -- i've actually never seen a trial where jurors are allowed to ask questions. >> it's the most absolutely mind-boggling, meddlesome thing. they use it in arizona. they call it an arizona jury. it will drive you crazy as a lawyer. >> i think it's a great system. >> fascinating to see where they're at. jeff and mark, thank you very much. the story about a swimming cat. well, this made our ridiculous tonight. find out why.ture with the fidelity guided portfolio summary, you choose which accounts to track and use fidelity's analytics to spot trends, gain insights, and figure out what you want to do next. all in one place. i'm meredith stoddard and i helped create the fidelity guided portfolio summary. it's one more innovative reason serious investors are choosing fidelity. now get 200 free trades when you open an account.

tonight we get an important news item from roanoke, virginia. a news anchor tried to tackle a serious story in the struggle of one cat to lose weight. take a look. >> cats, they're not usually known for their love of swimming. one feline in northern virginia is hitting the water instead of the gym in an effort to lose weight. holly is a 13-year-old cat who dislikes the outdoors and other physical activities. encouragement from her owner -- he managed to lose one pound in six weeks. stay with us, everybody. we've got a lot more to come. >> so unprofessional. that poor cat worked his tail off to lose one pound in six weeks. i think th's